Attachment for ladies&#39; purses.



E. HAINES.

ATTACHM'ENT FOR LADIES' PURSES.

APPLlcAloN FILED MAR. 3o. 1915.

. 1 ,217, 1 7 l lPatented' Feb.l 27, 1917.

` UNITED sTATEs PATENT .oFFIcEQI-,L

ELIZABETH IIAINEs,4 or JoHNsToWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

- ATTACHMENT FORl LADIESIPURSES.

To all 'whom zt may cono-em.' i f Be it known that I, ELIZABETH HAINEs,a

citizen of the United States, :residing at' Johnstown, in. thecounty ofCambria, State` of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Attachments for LadiesPurses; and I do hereby declarethefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same. l

This invention relates to attachments for ladies purses.

The object of the invention resides in the provision .of an attachmentof the type named through the instrumentality of which keys, rings,small pocket books and the like may be4 supported near the mouth ofthepurse so as to be readily accessible'as soon as the purseis opened.

With the above and other olijects in Vview I the invention consists inthe details of construction and in the arrangement yand comvbination ofparts to be hereinafter moreA fully described and particularly pointedout-in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference ,will be had to theaccompanying drawing wherein like characters of reference denotecorresponding parts in the several views, and in. which'- v Figure 1 isa plan v-iew of a purse in open position and showing thev attachmentapplied;

Fig. 2, a vertical section of what is shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3, a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

and

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4--4 of Fig. 2.

1s opened.

Specication of Letters Patent. t Patented Feb.'27, 1917.' applicati@vmea March a,1915. serial No. 18,148.

Referring mh@ arawingfA indicates gea! erally a'ladys purse the mouth ofwhich is formed by .l hingedly connected v,sections 10 and 11 and eachof these sections includes a tionlO and relatively near the free endthereof.v One end of the bar 13 is riveted or otherwise suitably securedto the related fraine 12 while the other end thereof is free and isadapted to be detachably secured to the frame 12 through the medium of asuitable fastening device 14. In the use of the .attachment the free endis released and the article or articles it is desired to hold near themouth ofthe purse are engaged' over the, bar 13 and the free end of thellatter again.

secured to the frame 12 by means o'f the fastening device 14. l It willthus be seen that the article supported by the bar 13 can be reachedwithout'trouble as soon as the purse What is claimed is The combinationwith a purse including a mouth formed of hingedly connected sectionseach of which embodies a rigid frame, of a curved bar disposed on theinner side of one of said sections Iand having one end secured directlyto the frame and its other end free, and means for detachably securingthe freey end of the bar to the related sections.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signa-'i ture in the presence oftwowitnesses.

ELIZABETH HAINES.

v Witnesses:

J osE HETZLINE, E. T. McUNLIs.

